We are so prone to be obsessed with "what" is happening in our life and to ask "why" if we are unhappy with it (as if the answer would make it easier!). In my outlook with my disease, I agree with former Press Secretary Tony Snow when his cancer came back. He said, "I don't know why I have cancer, and I don't much care. It is what it is -- a plain and indisputable fact." He would concentrate "Who" is with him.
I am inspired to focus on the "Who" of my life every time I read Daniel 3 -- the account of the three Hebrew young men facing the fiery furnace. They were taken from their homeland as prisoners of Babylon. Having proved themselves and serving in high office, they attract the attention of those determined to make their life miserable. Then they were threatened with being incinerated in a huge furnace. When those things happened, there was no lament, "God, we have faithfully honored you, this isn't fair! Why?" Look how they focused on their "Who" -- "If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty's hand. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up..." (Daniel 3:17,18 ASV). Awesome confidence!
Try this focus; you will like it -- Isaiah 43:2.
Dick Robinson
